Merzak Allouache
Abderrazak Allouache
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Emerging from the Bab el-Oued quarter of Algiers, the son of a Kabyle postal worker and a Casbah housewife, he began formal film studies at the Institute for Cinema in Algiers before completing his training at Paris’s IDHEC (now La Fémis). After a brief stint at the Algerian News Office and an internship with France’s ORTF, he returned home in the early 1970s, directing documentaries such as Nous…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
